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Inspiration Monday XX

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Looks like the list is growing longer again! Go ye, read and broaden your minds!

Drew recorded another song!

Mike and two and three

Barb

Kay

Scribbla

PianoLover

Chessie

Barb

RLW

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

 

The Prompts:*

 Is there anybody out there?

Lead role in a cage

I’m comfortably numb

Afraid to care

Rearrange me ’til I’m sane

 

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post; I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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 * To celebrate the discovery of an online radio station that plays all Pink Floyd music, all of this week’s prompts are directly from or inspired by Pink Floyd lyrics. If you’ve never read any of those lyrics, I encourage you to look some up (with the disclaimer that there is some language and adult themes). They write like poets.

Inspiration Monday XIX

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Happy Independence Day, Americans! Happy normal Monday, everyone else. Tonight is the end of a long glorious weekend involving fireworks, an insanely sparkly engagement ring (not my own : P), an epic phone call (which I couldn”t really hear due to said fireworks), the gratitude of strangers (reponsible for one of today’s prompts), and the rewriting of a scene to include a character getting shot in the gut! To quote Rebecca Black, “fun, fun, fun.”

The Rewriters continue to produce awesome work. Really, could life get any better? Read up!

Patti

Janel

Billie Jo

Kay

Mike

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

My dad never looks at me*

Sneezing stardust

A stranger’s thank you

She cried out in her sleep

I’m the only one who can’t

 

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post; I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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 * Today’s first prompt brought to you by TragicPete.

Inspiration Monday XVIII

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Fewer submissions this week, as it is officially Summer! Thanks to the Rewriters still pumping out words this week, and all worth reading (or listening to, as is sometimes the case!). In other news, I was interviewed last week by Rewriter Marantha (and flattered as all get out).

Read up, folks! /

Lady Nimue

Drew composed and produced a song in a day!

SAB Inspirations

Patti

Jenna

Mike

Jinx

Barb

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

Eternally five minutes* 

Voices of the wind*

Ancient astronaut

I dreamed this

A reason to fight

 

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post; I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* Today’s first and second prompts brought to you by TragicPete and Wynonna Judd (the song Testify to Love)

Inspiration Monday XVII

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We’ve had a little bit of everything this week, from poetry to steampunk. In other news, I wrote a new synopsis on Saturday, and it wasn’t terrible. You may applaud – and help me celebrate by reading the awesome pieces linked below!

Nimue

Pete

Patti

Marantha

Mike and two and flash fiction and one more

Kay

Chessie

Juan

PianoLover

Barb

Anna

Jinx

Drew, InMon’s resident lyricist, has recorded a song from past prompt Paper Towns

I missed SAB Inspirations

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

One day he shot me; we’ve been happy ever since*

Do you ever feel like glass?*

I miss someone I’ve never met*

One man’s tragedy, another man’s miracle

Silence followed

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post; I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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Today’s first three prompts brought to you from TragicPete, Blindside (the song Cute Boring Love) and Wes King (the song Thought You’d Be Here).

Inspiration Monday XVI

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Another great week. I feel like I’m missing somebody, though…please let me know if I did, and I will rectify my omission with great haste!

Also, here’s a little gift I recently found out about and have forgotten to tell you all about for several weeks: (*cue fanfare*) A FREE (electronic/online) copy of Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style, also known as the bible of writing, which is fortunately way shorter than the actual Bible (my copy is only 85 pages long). Enjoy!

Jinx

Drew

Jenna

Mike

Patti

Kay

SAB

Juan

Chessie

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The Rules

There are none. Read the prompts, get inspired, write something. No word count minimum or maximum. You don’t have to include the exact prompt in your piece, and you can interpret the prompt(s) any way you like.

OR

No really; I need rules!

Okay; write 200-500 words on the prompt of your choice. You may either use the prompt as the title of your piece or work it into the body of your piece. You must complete it before 6 pm CST on the Monday following this post.

The Prompts:

Outstretched fingers*

I can’t draw love, but I know it when I see it.*

She thinks I’m dead

Unmentionable

Confidence trick

 

Want to share your Inspiration Monday piece? Post it on your blog and link back to today’s post; I’ll include a link to your piece in the next Inspiration Monday post. No blog? Email your piece to me at stephanie (at) balcomagency (dot) com.

Plus, get the InMon badge for your site here.

Happy writing!

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* Today’s first and second prompts brought to you by Jinx and TragicPete, respectively.